The map comes as California sees increasing frequency and severity of wildfires — four out of five of California’s most-destructive wildfires and nine of the 10 largest have occurred since ...

The map is intended to guide work to cut fire risk through controlled burns, fire breaks, and thinning and trimming of firebrand-prone trees and other vegetation, particularly in locations close ...

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

Instead of beginning at the Municipal Wharf, the 6-mile contest, now in its 53rd year, will fire the starting pistol along ...

“Most of the community of Janesville, for the most part, did not incur into that area,” Brunton said. As of Tuesday morning, the Dixie Fire has burned 604,511 acres and remains 31 percent contained.

The Wolf fire in Riverside County is now more than 2,400 acres in size, although firefighters are making progress.

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

Cooler temperatures and humidity are helping firefighters fight the fire, which nearly doubled in size since Monday afternoon ...